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NewslettersAutumn 2011 Issue

The True Disciples of Jesus

My fellow Animal Activists and brothers and sisters in Christ, do not
look to organised religion – named Christian or otherwise! – to solve
the world’s problems, for they are little more than givers of a veneer
of respectability to many past and prevalent practices which stink to
high Heaven. Turn instead to impartially read the four accounts of Jesus
as contained in your New Testament. See also that where you choose to
worship is consistent with the Jesus you read about in those pages.
Speak to Jesus heavenly Father in prayer. Seek to share your life with
Him. Tell Him you want to know more about Him; and as you talk to Him –
yes and sing to Him, if you wish! - then you’ll find Him as real
as this News Letter in front of you. Yes, ‘closer than breathing; indeed
closer than hands and feet’

Abraham Lincoln once said (as I’ve mentioned many times before): ‘I
never felt the presence of Jesus so close to me as when I knelt down to
break the shackles off the feet of slaves. I then felt His hand on my
shoulder!’ Similarly, I would say: one never feels the presence of
Jesus so close as when one releases a bird from a battery cage, a calf
from a veal crate or a laboratory animal from a Frankenstein
vivisections hell hole!. O admittedly, so many who do these latter
heroic deeds will not have read a New Testament, but at the judgment day
the figurative sheep will be divided from the figurative goats. (I
suggest you read all about it in Matthew chapter 25: verses 31-46)

To many a non-believing animal activist in this life, I sense there
will come a great surprise: “But who are you Lord; because we never knew
you?” And the Good Shepherd’s reply will be: ‘because you did it to the
least of one of my creatures, you did it as for me. Enter in to the joy
of your Lord!’ Yes, and to some spiritually smug ‘born again’ boasters
“not all who say Lord, Lord, will enter in to my kingdom; but rather
those who do the will of my Father in Heaven.”

Life is short here on earth, and eternity to follow is long! Let us
get our priorities in right order. There is work to be done for our
gracious Master. Let us not falter or fail Him. One remembers a
delightful evangelical chorus of years past:

Work for Jesus, day by day. Serve Him ever; falter
Never. Christ obey. Yield Him service loyal & true. There's a work for
Jesus none but you can do!